[HUFF Poo] Veterans associations, furious vets and military personnel are calling on their insurance company to yank ads from Fox News and Tucker Carlson's program after he called Gen. Mark Milley, a "pig" for schooling Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during congressional testimony.
Carlson went after the nation's highest-ranking military officer on Thursday, saying Milley's "not only a pig, but stupid" after the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff put Gaetz in his place. Milley told lawmakers ‐ most pointedly Gaetz ‐ that it's important for military personnel to be "open minded," "widely read" and educated about issues, including about Critical Race Theory.
"What is wrong with understanding? Having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?" an irritated Milley asked Wednesday during the House Armed Services Committee hearing, which left Gaetz shaking his head in disgust.
Carlson came back Friday to again attack Milley, slamming his remarks as "disgraceful."
Now veterans, service members and other customers are calling on the United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a banking and insurance company which primarily serves vets and their families, to stop supporting Carlson's show with advertising dollars.
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I seriously doubt there are many veterans that support the nonsense Milley was speaking and any veterans that are part of an association getting involved in this should reconsider their association.
What you get when you reduce promotion to box check equity for everyone. You know we've been in a war for 20 years. War is what an army exists for. Promotion should have been by demonstrated abilities on the battlefield not box checking. It's not fair, but neither is war.
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The U.S. military hasn't been required to win a war since WWII. There's too much money and prestige in peace-processing.
Never mind that long, low-intensity conflicts and up killing more than short, high-intensity conflicts. Never mind that the people supposedly representing our interests overseas find themselves enriched by keeping tyrants and monsters in power.
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Promotion should have been by demonstrated abilities on the battlefield not box checking. It's not fair, but neither is war.
How is that not fair? I thought the military was for killing people and breaking things so it's only natural that the baddest of the bad-asses get to lead.
And I would bet that any insurance companies that cancel Tucker will find the majority of veterans cancelling their policies.
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Not likel the huffnpuff makes it look. Its just a few of the usual suspects. Mainly a few blue checked hardcore anti-trump liberals on Tweeter, and the usual left-wing "veteran" groups.
Huffnpuff is being misleading as usual.
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^ this. Who, how many?
More lies & disinformation from left-wing media whores who resent Carlson's success
[ESPN] EUGENE, Ore. -- For the past week, the national anthem has played one time per evening at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. On Saturday, the song happened to start while outspoken activist Gwen Berry was standing on the podium after receiving her bronze medal in the hammer throw.
While the music played, Berry placed her left hand on her hip and fidgeted. She took a quarter turn, so she was facing the stands, not the flag. Toward the end, she plucked up her black T-shirt with the words "Activist Athlete" emblazoned on the front, and draped it over her head.
"I feel like it was a setup, and they did it on purpose,'' Berry said of the timing of the anthem. "I was pissed, to be honest.'' "It's all about meeeeee"
Berry's reaction to the "Star-Spangled Banner'' was as notable as anything on the track on a blazing-hot Saturday, the second-to-last day at U.S. Olympic trials. With temperatures reaching 101 degrees (38 Celsius) on the field, DeAnna Price won the event with a throw of 263 feet, 6 inches (80.31 meters), which was nearly 7 feet longer than Berry's throw.
Clearly activism uses time and energy better put toward mastering basic skills.
Price broke the meet record on four of her six throws, and the last two of those throws also broke the American record.
Second place belonged to Brooke Andersen, while Berry grabbed the third spot by a scant 2 inches over Janee Kassanavoid. Berry, heading to her second Olympics, has promised to use her position in Tokyo to keep raising awareness about social injustices in her home country.
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They might find the international Olympic management have no problem in removing such behaviors from the game along with a quick return flight for any who think they can turn someone else's party into their 'me' moment.
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#2 They might find the international Olympic management have no problem in removing such behaviors from the game along with a quick return flight for any who think they can turn someone else's party into their 'me' moment.
Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-06-27 08:15
...This. And if enough American athletes decide to throw tantrums this time, the IOC may well have no problem at all reading them the riot act for the Paris games in 2024.
Which, frankly, is fine by me. There are occasional stories of genuine courage and sportsmanship among the US athletes, but they are few and far between anymore. They tend to be just as spoiled and entitled as their professional brethren, and now they can add to that politically obnoxious. A pox upon them all.
And one last thought: we heard people screaming bloody murder a few months ago when it was suggested that perhaps we shouldn't grace the Chinese with our presence due to, you know, the genocide and biological warfare stuff. If, however, the IOC decided to preemptively warn US athletes to keep the nonsense down, you'd see a tidal wave of support for a US boycott.
Mike
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Too many US Olympic women are looking more and more like the 1970-1990's East German and USSR Macha Athletes.
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If you don't want to represent your nation stay home, or exchange your citizenship for a country that will take you. It's not like the US has to put up walls to keep people out.
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It would be a POWERFUL statement on behalf of their cause if all of these celebrities and whatevers all dropped their US citizenship enmasse and applied for Cuban citizenship.
[NY Post] An oblivious fan posing for the cameras caused a bloody crash Saturday that plunged the first stage of the Tour de France ‐ won by Julian Alaphilippe ‐ into chaos.
With one foot on the road and a cardboard sign encouraging riders to "Go!" hanging onto the course, the spectator's head was turned in the opposite direction of the cyclists when all hell broke loose.
Veteran rider Tony Martin crashed into the sign and tumbled to the ground, leading dozens of others behind the accident into a pile-up involving half of the riders.
Multiple bikes were damaged as a result of the crash but the injury toll to riders wasn't immediately clear.
The Tour cautioned fans to "respect the safety of the riders" and "Don't risk everything for a photo or to get on television!" But did he get a strongly worded letter in his permanent record?
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I was having brunch in the local country club bar yesterday with a friend and all he said was: "I really like that part"
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But did he get a strongly worded letter in his permanent record?
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I absolutely despise 'fans' like that broad. Primoz Roglic (the first guy who got hit) should've dropped his shoulder into her. Since she's in France, I recommend le guillotine, and I'm 3/4 serious about this.
Via Bulgarian journalist Ruslan Trad
[TheGuardian] Classified defence documents containing details about HMS Defender and the military have been found at a bus stop, prompting an investigation from the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The loss of the sensitive information was described “as embarrassing as it is worrying for ministers” by Labour, who are seeking reassurances that national security has not been undermined.
The MoD said an employee reported the loss of the documents last week, which were discovered by a member of the public in a soggy heap behind a bus stop in Kent early on Tuesday morning, the BBC reported.
The papers included one set of documents that discussed the potential Russian reaction to HMS Defender’s travel through Ukrainian waters off the Crimea coast on Wednesday, according to the BBC, while another laid out plans for a possible UK military presence in Afghanistan.
A member of the public, who wanted to remain anonymous, contacted the organisation when they found the 50 pages of classified information, which included emails and PowerPoint presentations.
Britain was unexpectedly embroiled in a diplomatic and military dispute with Russia on Wednesday after the Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender, briefly passed through territorial waters off the coast of the disputed territory of Crimea.
The documents confirm that a mission – described by the MoD as an “innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters” – with guns covered and the ship’s helicopter stowed in its hangar, was conducted in the expectation that the Kremlin might respond aggressively.
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I wonder how classified said papers were. There is Classified - Top Secret Eyes Only and there is Classified - Do Not Leave at a Bus Stop. If the papers are classified-classified, then there should be a record of who checked them out.
More support for my theory that humans are the weakest link in any system.
[NYT via DNYUZ] Each week, our survey of recent residential sales in New York City and the surrounding region focuses on homes that sold around a certain price point, allowing you to compare single-family homes, condos and co-ops in different locales.
The "list price" is the asking price when the property came on the market with the most recent broker. The time on the market is measured from the most recent listing to the closing date of the sale.
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The land prices locally are insane: Everybody is Buying and Nobody is selling. We (finally) called a Realtor at 0900 and had two (2) firm offers by Noon.
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I heard on the radio the other day that the usual suspects, speculators, have shifting into property. Buying it like stocks. No intentions of living there. Not even flipping in the quick repair/upgrade sense. It'll collapse like they all do and we'll be stuck with paying for it one way or another.
[AlAhram] Erdogan's detractors accuse him of clinging to a project that will lead Turkey to ecological disaster and debt as massive as it is unnecessary
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... on Saturday launched the start of construction on a controversial canal aimed at easing congestion on the Bosphorus but which critics say courts environmental disaster.
The "Canal Istanbul" is a gigantic waterway running parallel to the Bosphorus Strait connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean.
"Today we are opening a new page in the history of Ottoman Turkish development," Erdogan said during the ceremony to lay the foundation stone of a bridge forming part of the project.
The 45 kilometre (28 mile) long waterway will connect the Black Sea to global maritime networks, a strategically important issue at the heart of European geopolitics and conflicts for centuries.
Erdogan's detractors accuse him of clinging to a project that will lead The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... to ecological disaster and debt as massive as it is unnecessary.
Erdogan devoted almost all of his speech to defending the project.
Citing the risks posed by the rising number of ships passing through the Bosphorus, Erdogan said the project was mostly aimed at "ensuring the safety of (Turkey's) citizens in Istanbul" and allowing the country to take "a more important place" in international trade.
Dismissing critics, he said: "All stages of the project have been designed in accordance with science."
The project has also sparked criticism abroad, mainly in Russia, a country that fears seeing easier access to the Black Sea for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces.
Under the Montreux Convention governing navigation through the Bosphorus Strait -- the only natural maritime access to the Black Sea -- countries that don't have a coastline to the waters must give advanced notification of plans for their ships to pass through the region. And then, the vessels can only stay for a limited time.
"This project in no way violates Montreux," said former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, who spoke before Erdogan at the ceremony.
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Current budget of $13 Billion is probably at least $5B below what will actually be needed.
However, if it were completed, Turkey would be able to charge for passage and would probably make a Billion $ or so per year on transit fees. Turkey could also make money on ports at the ends of the canal.
However a lot of people will have to be thrown out of their houses and farms will be lost. The project is thought to be massively unpopular in the vicinity of Istanbul.
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High Speed Rail Seaway
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Couldn't make it as a great conqueror, so now he's going to be a great builder?
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[HUFF Poo] Veterans associations, furious vets and military personnel are calling on their insurance company to yank ads from Fox News and Tucker Carlson's program after he called Gen. Mark Milley, a "pig" for schooling Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during congressional testimony.
[ESPN] EUGENE, Ore. -- For the past week, the national anthem has played one time per evening at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. On Saturday, the song happened to start while outspoken activist Gwen Berry was standing on the podium after receiving her bronze medal in the hammer throw.
[NY Post] An oblivious fan posing for the cameras caused a bloody crash Saturday that plunged the first stage of the Tour de France ‐ won by Julian Alaphilippe ‐ into chaos. 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
